Paolo Nutini's manager Brendan Moon says he wasn't drunk, as has been alleged, when he performed in Swindon after celebrating Scottish football team Celtic's Scottish Premier League title win recently. The Daily Record claimed that the singer provoked jeers and walk outs from his audience after slurring his words during the gig, one date on the UK leg of a current world tour.
Moon has countered that his 20 year old client was just mumbling as he sang, and that some technical problems made him difficult to hear. "Him being drunk is absolute nonsense," he says. "Anybody who has seen Paolo before knows it's just the way he speaks. He has never claimed to be an orator and he is not a brilliant public speaker, but he doesn't pretend to be."
He did, however, admit that Nutini had had a couple of beers as he listened to the match. Shocking.